Noun
the state of being several and distinct
Source: WordNetConventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is continuous, and that discrete models are necessary evils for approximating the "real" world, due to the innate discreteness of the digital computer. Doron Zeilberger
It is not that things give meaning to words; it is that meaning makes things "things.” It does not make things in their subsistence; but it does make things in their discreteness for the understanding. Richard Weaver
Dirac supplied a systematic procedure for transferring the characteristic quantum phenomenon of discreteness of physical quantities from the quantum-mechanical treatment of particles to a corresponding treatment of fields. Source: Internet
Its second idea is that the quantum discreteness that determines the particle-like behavior of other field theories (for instance, the photons of the electromagnetic field) also affects the structure of space. Source: Internet
However, in a classical harmonic oscillator such as a lead ball attached to the end of a spring, we do not perceive any discreteness. Source: Internet